Mike Hughes: Greg Kinnear redefines 'Rake'

10:04 PM,
Jan. 22, 2014

Written by

Mike Hughes
For The Salinas Californian

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "Rake" debut, 9 p.m., Fox. Smart and handsome, Keegan Deane (Greg Kinnear) should be a fine lawyer. Instead, he drinks excessively and gambles ineptly; now he has big debts, an unpaid assistant and a high-profile case. The result neatly juggles comedy and drama. That's a specialty of Peter Tolan ("Rescue Me"), who worked with Peter Duncan to adapt Duncan's Australian series